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Flat out the worst defensive performance I've ever seen by a Hawkeye team. Turning their backs on the ball, not fighting through screens, losing track of their zone responsibilities, on and on.

I still can't believe it. It was awful!!
 
1hawkeye1 said:
Flat out the worst defensive performance I've ever seen by a Hawkeye team. Turning their backs on the ball, not fighting through screens, losing track of their zone responsibilities, on and on.

I still can't believe it. It was awful!!
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My favorite play was Maryland inbounding the ball with less than two seconds on the shot clock. I knew they were going to get a basket. Sure enough we let them throw a direct pass to a guy wide open in the short corner who drilled it.
 
Joshbrown said:
I wouldn't put the loss on fouls. We got more chances at the line than them. Speaking of which Iowa needs to do better at crunch time. But we didn't lose because of our free throw shooting either. We lost because MD always had an answer to our come-back and it usually included a 3 point shot. Next year Iowa will win a game like this one. This year will be about growing. But Fran will be feeling some heat a year from now as he won't have the youth excuse. Next season should be a bounce back year.
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My comments in regards to officiating were in regards to all college basketball games.

I should have realized that by posting in the game thread it would have been interrupted to put the loss on the officiating but that certainly wasn't the case or the intent of my posts.
 
NikeHawk21 said:
My favorite play was Maryland inbounding the ball with less than two seconds on the shot clock. I knew they were going to get a basket. Sure enough we let them throw a direct pass to a guy wide open in the short corner who drilled it.
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That was a very typical defensive breakdown for Iowa last night. Laughingly bad.
 
You have to want to play defense to play good defense...Jok is the leader and the young players follow his lead...is this part of the problem?

After a while Iowa engages its token defense and reaching defense...and get rolled for a period of time...and the game is soon pretty close to out of reach.

Defensive coaching is disappointing...why?

At least last night we morphed into a team that does a lot of resting and watching on defense and spends lots of time watching Jok jack 3s on the other end...

How easily the opponents get good, easy shots this year is, well, astounding...really.
 
revkev73 said:
You have to want to play defense to play good defense...Jok is the leader and the young players follow his lead...is this part of the problem?

After a while Iowa engages its token defense and reaching defense...and get rolled for a period of time...and the game is soon pretty close to out of reach.

Defensive coaching is disappointing...why?

At least last night we morphed into a team that does a lot of resting and watching on defense and spends lots of time watching Jok jack 3s on the other end...

How easily the opponents get good, easy shots this year is, well, astounding...really.
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To me, Jok's defense is the most disappointing of all the players. Jok is a capable defender when he puts forth the effort on the defensive side. He just only does it in spurts really, and at times just looks flat out lazy on the defensive end.

Now granted, I am not a D1 athlete, and maybe I am discounting how tough it is to play 30+ min at full effort when he is getting the shit kicked out of him on every offensive possession. He has to work so hard rubbing off screens and everything else to get open, and he is just getting bodied up all over the place, that I'm sure that take much more of a toll and that is part of it.
 
deanvogs said:
To me, Jok's defense is the most disappointing of all the players. Jok is a capable defender when he puts forth the effort on the defensive side. He just only does it in spurts really, and at times just looks flat out lazy on the defensive end.

Now granted, I am not a D1 athlete, and maybe I am discounting how tough it is to play 30+ min at full effort when he is getting the shit kicked out of him on every offensive possession. He has to work so hard rubbing off screens and everything else to get open, and he is just getting bodied up all over the place, that I'm sure that take much more of a toll and that is part of it.
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I would say being tired has almost everything to do with his defensive effort. What your best offensive player needs is 4 guys that help cover him on defense.
 
PCHawk said:
I would say being tired has almost everything to do with his defensive effort. What your best offensive player needs is 4 guys that help cover him on defense.
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Well, that, and his injured back is not helping. You could see that he was struggling on the closeouts on Trimble late in the game. He is just not able to extend like he should be able to. It looks to me like he is worried about getting hurt worse than he is and possibly saving some of the effort for the offensive end.
 
NikeHawk21 said:
My favorite play was Maryland inbounding the ball with less than two seconds on the shot clock. I knew they were going to get a basket. Sure enough we let them throw a direct pass to a guy wide open in the short corner who drilled it.
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That was a bi
deanvogs said:
To me, Jok's defense is the most disappointing of all the players. Jok is a capable defender when he puts forth the effort on the defensive side. He just only does it in spurts really, and at times just looks flat out lazy on the defensive end.

Now granted, I am not a D1 athlete, and maybe I am discounting how tough it is to play 30+ min at full effort when he is getting the shit kicked out of him on every offensive possession. He has to work so hard rubbing off screens and everything else to get open, and he is just getting bodied up all over the place, that I'm sure that take much more of a toll and that is part of it.
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I think part of Jok's issue is over pursuing the passes which I guess I'm not sure how I feel. He creates a couple steals every game which helps the transition game but he also gets burnt on a backdoor a couple times a game too.
 
Jok gets worn out...he needs to rest somewhere...and it is on the defensive end. Plus with his asthma and injuries...well, not surprising.

The team has terrible defensive fundamentals...amazingly so.

Baer...the exception.

I like JB but he gets blown by so often by a talented guard and the defense dissolves into disarray.

Tough to see this team finishing over .500 now...which is less than I expected by a long shot.

Will see...
 
Stanzi said:
Iowa finishes top 3 in the country every season but yea he sucks.
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When you finish in the top 3 and there may be three schools in the country that care about wrestling, color me unimpressed.

BTW, he got an 8-3 lead against PSU and STILL got blown out at home.
 
We couldn't stop their stud. Hey couldn't stop our stud (if he was healthy). Since Jok wasn't healthy he couldn't cancel out Trimble...which is why we lost IMO.
 
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